ASUS Details ROG Ally Specs - $699 Gaming Handheld With AMD Z1 Extreme

[murraytony]

[LIST][*]Twice as fast as SteamDeck in pretty much everything

Apparently, the Steam Deck is faster at 10W according to LTT.

[theriddick]

Apparently the control sticks are tiny and feel cheap. No novel trackpads like Steam Deck seems to be a odd move for a lot of these handhelds, not like Valve own that idea...

[stormcrow]

This is a gaming handheld. As long as controls work no one cares about UI. Absolute most games run in full screen mode. Steam has Big Picture mode. Microsoft has something for gaming as well (I don't remember how it's called).

I did not say a thing about the UI (user interface). I called out the UX (user experience). There's a big effin difference. UI contributes to the UX but the User eXperience is far far more than just pretty pictures and icon arrangements on a screen. If you're read the review articles you'd know the experience on the damned thing is utter crap even though some of them glossed over the experience as if it doesn't matter. That's utter BS. It means they were being paid to talk the product up.

[citral]

Valve should consider making a Steam OS release for the Ally; that would cut into the XBox Game Pass competition, and solidify their position.

Why should they put extra effort into supporting a device made by an anti-consumer company that performs worse below 15W? Valve has nothing to do but keep working on their vision, which is not a quick cash-grab for shareholders sponsored by insecure Microsoft.

This will end up like the xbox vs ps2 debacle, except valve is not sony when it comes to consumers and open-source community.

[Tuxee]

This as at least one usb port. You could just plug in your mouse to play any of those games.

Come on. It's supposed to be portable. Carrying an extra mouse? And where to place it when you want to play on the go?

[F.Ultra]

I believe Valve has been quoted saying that the next generation of Steamdeck will not be targeting a performance increase, and instead will be optimizing for battery life and other improvements. So to me, that likely means the same resolution screen, same overall performance - but improved color/brightness, reduced power consumption, larger battery, etc...



I believe Steam OS 3.5 is supposed to ship with a public "desktop" version for anyone to install on their PC. Presumably, at that point, a company like Asus could simply package it with the requisite drivers and customization for their handheld and ship it.

What the two engineers from Valve said in that old interview was "the engineers downplayed any possible improvements to the Steam Deck’s power or performance in the short term", note the use of "short term". Aka they meant that just because AMD just released the RDNA3 Mobile, Valve would not jump to release a new deck with that chipset now.

[AmericanLocomotive]

1080p is useless for this size of a display. Wasted battery and performance. I really hope Valve won't do the same for Steam Deck 2.

I believe Valve has been quoted saying that the next generation of Steamdeck will not be targeting a performance increase, and instead will be optimizing for battery life and other improvements. So to me, that likely means the same resolution screen, same overall performance - but improved color/brightness, reduced power consumption, larger battery, etc...

Valve should consider making a Steam OS release for the Ally; that would cut into the XBox Game Pass competition, and solidify their position.

I believe Steam OS 3.5 is supposed to ship with a public "desktop" version for anyone to install on their PC. Presumably, at that point, a company like Asus could simply package it with the requisite drivers and customization for their handheld and ship it.

[microcode]

Valve should consider making a Steam OS release for the Ally; that would cut into the XBox Game Pass competition, and solidify their position.

[citral]

How is that wrong OS? Linux users are in delusion as always.

I would rather say they make the conscious effort to accept that some games won't run, or that they have to pay attention to which peripherals they buy depending on its support, to gain the freedom of having no ads, no spying, no telemetry, to be the master of their OS, the one in charge, and not the slave who has no idea what it's doing exactly.

People scream at Asus bios blobs that do things it shouldn't do in non-transparent manners to your hardware.

Well, the same can be said of windows, genius.

[citral]

Windows has been a ton more secure than Linux over the past decade. It's about the boot process (signature verification of the entire boot process - not just the kernel as in Linux, you're free to embed malware in initrd), files/image security, the kernel, anti-exploitation techniques (including HVCI), built-in very power per-app firewall, drivers isolation, etc. etc. etc.

This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've read in a very long while.

Name me one company that runs internet/extranet servers on windows.